--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Queen Elizabeth I, another offspring of the Keltic belief in
men and/or women as leaders (which the papists hated
[snip]
Er... off-planet: Why was Elizabeth I's father, Henry VIII, so
obsessed then with having a
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Aug 27, 2008, at 1:20 PM, TurquoiseB wrote:
Just to irrelevantly cross refer to a current post on Iraq -
my missus (a bit of an expert she claims on all things medieval
Tudor) tells me Richard Cur de Lion
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Aug 19, 2008, at 2:15 AM, John wrote:
To All:
How come India only has one gold medal? It has a billion people and
only one athlete was able to win a medal during the Olympics.
On the other hand, China
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
One thing that strikes me from the quote is a reminder that we have
developed our thinking quite a bit since then. He is giving what
amounts to the epistemological thrust of Mad Magazine which kids in
our culture
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hell hath no fury like a cunt ignored.
Stating your ignoring him is not ignoring him.
Half of what you have to say I find very interesting. The other half
seems to be infected with narcissism and obsession. Very odd.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
* The more attached someone is to being taken
seriously, the more important it is for you to
laugh at them, and encourage others to do the
same.
* Buddhists owe compassion only to sentient
beings. If they haven't
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, jyouells2000 jyouells@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Rick Archer rick@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
[snipsy]
And I wish that I would have earmarked the post in which he (Turq)
said that he never reads MY posts,
[/endsnipsy]
Oh you too?! I got that treatment. Is it a copy 'n' paste he has? All
the same it chills the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From the Yahoo Blog today:
We are currently experiencing Groups mail processing delays. We are
working to isolate the cause of this issue and will post updates as we
make progress.
As always, we sincerely
Good grief Nabby - If you weren't before, surely you're in PC by now?
- patronised consciousness.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Sal Sunshine [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
On Aug 10, 2008, at 1:01 PM, Richard M wrote:
Good grief Nabby - If you weren't before, surely you're in PC by now?
- patronised consciousness.
Or maybe BC--Bullsh*t Consciousness.
Sal
Nabby being right all
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Robert babajii_99@ wrote:
�
It's at a place called: 'The Electric Factory' and has a big picture
of Ben Franklin;
On the side of the building...
Back in the day...
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 feste37@ wrote:
Well, Turq devotes an entire rant to me. I'm truly honored.
No, no,no feste. Turq wasn't ranting on, or insulting YOU, only your
ideas. As always.
(Acknowledgement to http://wattsupwiththat.wordpress.com/ )
Rajendra Pachauri isn't nearly as famous as Al Gore, who shared the
Nobel Peace Prize with an international panel on climate change that
Pachauri, an Indian scientist and economist, has led since 2002. But
as chairman of the UN's
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@
wrote:
Namesake - Is that your eyeballing of the DATA? Or a calculation
from
from
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@
wrote
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@
wrote
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@
wrote:
[snip]
Richard M:
To back up what I am saying, I am not going to send you to MY
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@
wrote:
So what? I call it like I see it. Put it all back in
it's proper context
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote:
Er.. Haven't you noticed that what is going on in Crop Circle
in the USA (Read It In New Scientist) is not quite the same
as Crop Circle
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Richard, I like your contributions to this forum. Sometimes Turq
misses out on his coffee in the morning and lashes out at someone for
no good reason. We are just one big quarreling family here.
Feste37 - Thanks for that.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
When the real action becomes science I'll read it in NS.
To be honest, I originally slunk in to this conversation on crop
circles because your superior tone to believers grated. Amongst
others, this post:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, nablusoss1008 no_reply@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend jstein@
wrote
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, new.morning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
curtisdeltablues@ wrote:
but how it feels to
be tripping on acid and listen to the Sargent Pepper album is not
science or universal knowledge. It is personal
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Largest stone blocks in the world, perfecttly fitted in wall -- not
Roman as claimed?
This ia interesting:
http://www.vejprty.com/baalbek.htm
OffWorld
Heavens! That seems to be about 20X larger than the
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, off_world_beings no_reply@
wrote:
Largest stone blocks in the world, perfecttly fitted in wall
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know
peace.
Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But
if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.
Read more:
From: yifuxero [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Thursday, July 17, 2008 1:12:02 AM
Subject: [FairfieldLife] Message of Balsekar: Do nothing since
everything will happen anyway.
http://www.tinyurl.com/6n5ue4
as part of http://www.tinyurl.com;5zdxc2
Finally, as
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, cardemaister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owOCJTDfJKs
It IS, isn't it!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:
I just LOVE this announcement. I think it should
be printed up on glossy gold paper with a photo
of Maharishi and all the Rajas (in costume, of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, feste37 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Judy is absolutely correct on every point here. The vast majority of
people who learn TM do not get involved in these kinds of activities.
Those who do, as Judy says, find them nourishing in some way. Some of
those who do
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote:
I'd love to see Tony Nader fly, it would make my day! I can't
think of a reason why someone wouldn't want to demonstrate
sidhi powers. The old I don't want to be remembered as a
circus act excuse doesn't wash, if you
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@
wrote:
I'd love to see Tony Nader fly, it would make my day! I can't
think
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hugo wrote:
My experience on a year long course was that my digestion died.
This is very common in the TMO and extremely unpleasant, esp-
cially for someone like me who likes a bit of a scoff. Yet it
isn't talked
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
In more important news of the day:
*http://tinyurl.com/6pzntt
*
Yes - little know fact of the day - C02 is not by any means the
primary greenhouse gas.
The politicized theory of AGW (anthropocentric global warming
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, authfriend [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
On Jul 9, 2008, at 11:45 AM, authfriend wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
snip
Well, I was used to the thought
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
I think getting off Earth should be our number one
priority. Let's face it this planets nearly trashed
unless we go and find another sooner or later we'll
die here, there ain't no two ways about it. I say
let's go now and leave
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I did my fair share of acid back in the 60s, and I can
honestly say that those epxeriences paled by comparison
to what I experienced around this dude. And, despite
what you might hear, there were NO drugs involved in
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
new wrote:
That a ball bounces back off a wall does not
necessitate gods nor morality. Do this, get
that result.
There's no doubt that the laws of 'karma' indicate
cause and effect. But, the question
:
sometimes bad people do bad things and are rewarded
with good things.
Richard M. wrote:
But maybe not in the long run ;-)
Maybe so, maybe not.
However, all karma, mental or physical, is negated
by logical experience.
In reality there's no causation, and no effect whatsover
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
If it's a force we don't know about that brings good or
bad things back to us then I call it supernatural. I can't
think of a way that, often subjective, behaviour can bounce
off something and bring us back good or bad luck.
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Stu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo richardhughes103@ wrote:
Just as I prefer to believe that there is an ordered reality which we
can get
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, ruthsimplicity no_reply@
wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk shempmcgurk@
wrote:
Take a superior attitude towards other practises? Heck, 90% of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Indeed, as I've written here many times, it is my firm conviction
that 90% of the people at MUM and at the cult compound in Holland
don't even practise the TM Program.
Fascinating stuff (I am new here so I don't know
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bhairitu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
We have this little thing here in the US about celebrating our
independence from the Brits in 1776 which occurs yearly on July 4th.
Yes - as a Brit I wonder if I should be keeping my head down ;-)
However - my partner
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Me, I don't believe that there exists any such
animal as pure experience. All experience is
experienced on top of a lifetime (or lifetimes)
of learning and preconditioning, and then is
interpreted after the fact based
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB no_reply@ wrote:
TurquoiseB:
Me, I don't believe that there exists any such
animal as pure experience. etc etc
RichardM:
When I first read this it had a certain seductive logic
(especially in the hot woman context). But if you push at it -
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote:
You embrace relativism but object to scepticism. But I think
you protest too much. Your extreme (in my view) relativism fully
implies an extreme
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, shempmcgurk [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
The only rational explanation I can come up with for why Maharishi
took a 180 degree turn on instructions for the outward stroke of life
(ie, living in the relative) is that he had so many sycophants around
him all
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Jul 2, 2008, at 10:07 AM, shempmcgurk wrote:
The only rational explanation I can come up with for why Maharishi
took a 180 degree turn on instructions for the outward stroke of life
(ie, living in the relative) is
This is cool! - a ball game based on brain waves where the most
relaxed opponent (=alpha/theta waves measurement) gets to triumph. A
sort of tug of war between relaxees.
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/30/mindball_videogame/
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2008/06/30/mindball_videogame/
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Hugo [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
Quite agree, I heard a good argument against John McCain along these
lines: If he believes in Intelligent Design as an alternative to
natural selection, he must be so bad at judging evidence that how
can you trust him to
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard J. Williams
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But, TM in itself is just a very subtle
form of stress, what Selye called 'eu-stress;
ugh! This is making my semantic synapses give me a headache!
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
It also has attracted some of the best scientists out there,
all non-Buddhist. Who wouldn't want to research meditators who
are able to transcend for hours at a time and come out
totally refreshed?
Perhaps the ones not
Vaj wrote:
The bizarre thing is many other meditation techniques don't
have side effects like is seen in TM.
My un-scientific but nevertheless empirical view:
For about 15 to 20 years I came into contact with a very great number
of meditators, teachers and sidhas.
I never saw any evidence
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, freeradicalfederation wrote:
One interest of ours has been in identifying meditation techniques
that either do not have the IOP-increasing side effect or that might
even have the effect of reducing IOP. Finding such a meditation
technique could be of
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, freeradicalfederation
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Richard M compost1uk@ wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, freeradicalfederation wrote:
One interest of ours has been in identifying meditation techniques
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Albert Einstein described belief in God as childish superstition
and said Jews were not the chosen people, in a letter to be sold in
London this week, an auctioneer said Tuesday.
I think Einstein distinguished very much
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well he does get pretty specific:
No interpretation no matter how subtle can (for me) change this
So I think that may rule out finer and more subtle interpretations
of God.
But what can be more specific than his statement I
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Albert Einstein described belief in God as childish superstition
Einstein also wrote:
In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited human
understanding, am able to recognize, there are yet people who say
On May 13, 2008, at 1:13 PM, Richard M wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
Albert Einstein described belief in God as childish superstition
Einstein also wrote:
In view of such harmony in the cosmos which I, with my limited
human
understanding, am
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I repeat my 2nd question above, with amplifcation:
even if he had called for a stenographer on his
deathbed and spelled out in no uncertain terms
whether he believed in God or not, does what he
believed affect you one
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, curtisdeltablues
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I hung out with his granddaughter who told me that he was an atheist ,
and the family is very upset when his words are used out of their
poetic context to try to prove a theistic agenda. She was proud of
the
Vaj says:
I like some of what Christy says:
You won't like this!
More Carbon Dioxide, Please
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=MWJlODMxYmUzYWNmZGZiM2NhNmExYTYyNDUzYmViZjQ=
If that doesn't make you choke on your toast, I'm a Dutchman...
But if that's your guiding light, what ad hominem will you
deploy to denigrate climate sceptics such as Richard Lindzen,
atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of
Meteorology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology?
They say you should be careful what you wish for. Silly
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 30, 2008, at 9:14 AM, Richard M wrote:
But if that's your guiding light, what ad hominem will you
deploy to denigrate climate sceptics such as Richard Lindzen,
atmospheric physicist and the Alfred P. Sloan
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Which method is most like TMO Research?
(HINT: there are only two possible answers.)
Let's hope the answer isn't (a): Here are the facts. What conclusions
can we draw from them. That'd be naive inductivism, no?
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Apr 29, 2008, at 10:42 AM, Richard M wrote:
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Vaj vajradhatu@ wrote:
Which method is most like TMO Research?
(HINT: there are only two possible answers.)
Let's hope the answer
I was referring to inductivism.
Forgive my stupidity...but you've lost me!
You say Which method is most like TMO Research? and imply that there
is a path of virtue characterised by Here are the facts. What
conclusions can we draw from them.
To me that looks a virtue-less idea (naive
Colorado State University officials say handling media inquiries
related to Gray's forecasting requires too much time and detracts
from efforts to promote other professors' work.
Emeritus Professor Gray certainly provokes controversy. You would
think though that that is what good science
Notice the phrase the world's most prominent scientists rather than
the world's most prominent climate or meteorology scientists.
This seems to be an appeal to priesthood pedigree rather than
scientific rationality?
But if that's your guiding light, what ad hominem will you deploy to
But what does that have to do with this discussion? O you
are still stuck in the same misconception as HUGO that this is about
casuation.
I am very much with you on this. It is so common to hear the argument
astrology cannot work 'cos there is no known causal and physical
mechanism
Wrong. TM does not require that you know the meaning of your mantra,
in fact they want you to believe it's a meaningless sound.
But it's simply not true. Why spread lies when we don't have to?
This seems a bit harsh and hostile to me.
In TM you are given a word that you have probably
This seems a bit harsh and hostile to me.
Why would the truth seem harsh and hostile to you?
Vaj - An attentive reader would notice that the reference of the word
this in my statement was not truth. It was your comments.
I am sure you know that actually.
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